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Lina Smith


Sometimes the best chicken recipe is not only totally healthy, but it is also fast, easy to make and will have your family coming back for a second helping !

The following chicken recipe is for those people who are health conscientious and watching how much fat they take into their routine diet.

If using frozen chicken breasts: this chicken recipe is best when a frozen skinned chicken breast has been thawed slowly in cold water or even in the refrigerator. The meat seems to stay more firm and keeps in its moisture much better than if you defrost the chicken in a microwave or even at room temperature. Fresh chicken breasts can also be used.

Now onto the rest of the chicken recipe.

Choose as many chicken breasts as you wish to serve.

Slice a fresh lemon in half. Rub the lemon all over the breasts. (note: one lemon will be sufficient for about 4 medium-sized breasts)

Wrap the breasts in tin foil and place them on a baking sheet.

Bake in a moderate oven until done – depending upon the size of your breasts – it should not be more than 35 to 40 minutes.

Remove from oven, and put the chicken breasts into a baking dish or platter that you would like to serve them on.

Making the sauce for this chicken recipe is fast, easy and flavorful. All you will need is a couple of medium-sized onions, four or five tomatoes, some cilantro and/or oregano, three our four garlic cloves, olive oil, mushrooms if you like, and black olives – also optional.

Just dice it all up, add the oregano or cilantro and garlic to your specific tastes and you are done.

Cover the chicken breasts with your freshly made sauce and serve with a freshly steamed vegetable of your choice.

That is all there is to this chicken recipe if you want completely healthy and no fat or carbs to speak of.

If you would like to add a few carbs, then prepare some angel hair pasta and place the baked chicken breasts and sauce over the angel hair and sprinkle with a bit of parmesan cheese.

As a note, you can alter this chicken recipe in a multitude of ways. The main thing to keep in mind when you do alter it is to focus on keeping the chicken recipe fat free and completely healthy.

Try to avoid making sauces out of dairy products. If you should choose to make a sauce that has dairy products as a part of its ingredients, then to minimize your fat intake, try to avoid butter and sour cream, or minimally go with a light sour cream.

The idea behind this chicken recipe is to help you eat a delicious dinner while still eating healthy.

As a note, there are some excellent chicken soup and fried chicken recipes on the web as well, so if this one doesn’t hit your taste buds tonight, then consider a good chicken soup or fried chicken meal for your family.

 

Saurabh


Summer is here and if you are anything like me, you don’t want to turn on your oven or stove unless absolutely necessary. I do most of my cooking in the microwave during the summer months. It helps keep my home cooler and cuts down on my cooling bill.

I have found that many people don’t like to cook meat in the microwave. I was once one of those people. Chicken would come out like rubber and I always worried that ground beef didn’t cook thoroughly. I have since found that the trick is to use the right cooking utensils.

There has also been some hype about how it’s not safe to use plastic to cook meat or anything else in the microwave. This is only half true. Certain types of plastic have chemicals that are activated with the extreme heat of the microwave and these chemicals can get into your food. For more detail go to: www.bread-machine-cookbook.com.Hence, the key to cooking in your microwave is, once again, to use the correct cooking utensils. Basically, use containers that are specifically designed for cooking in the microwave.

My preference in microwave cooking is Tupperware. Their cookware is specifically designed for the microwave so you don’t have to worry about the chemicals. Their Oval Cooker is designed to retain the moisture of your meat so that your meat doesn’t come out dry and rubbery. It also has a colander so you can brown your meat and let the grease drip to the bottom. That makes it easy to dispose of the grease drippings or use them for gravy. Tupperware also backs it cooker with a lifetime warranty so if it breaks I can just replace it with a new one, which seems like a good investment to me.

So the instructions I am providing below apply to the Tupperware Oval Cooker. If you feel confident using a different type of microwave cooker, of course, try that, but please make sure you follow the guidelines I stated above.

Cooking Ground Beef Place the ground beef with your favorite seasoning in the colander of the cooker. Cover and cook for 6 minutes per pound. Let sit a few minutes then remove from the microwave. By using the colander all the grease will drain to the bottom of the cooker.

Cooking a Whole Chicken If using the Oval Cooker you will need to use the extender piece for your average size chicken. Then place the chicken in the cooker. Pour about half a cup of water on the bottom of the cooker. For more detail go to: www.delicious-sandwich-recipes.com.Sprinkle your chicken with your favorite’s seasonings. Place the cover on the cooker and cook for 6 minutes per pound. I think you will be surprised at how moist your chicken comes out.

Cooking Cut up Chicken After cutting up your chicken use the same instructions for cooking a whole chicken. Determine by how high the chicken stacks if you will need to use the extender or not.

Cooking Chicken Pieces You can use the colander to cook chicken pieces. Cut the chicken into bit size pieces. I usually use chicken breast cutlets for this. Place the cutup chicken pieces in the colander. Season with your favorite seasonings. Place the cover on the cooker and microwave for 6 minutes per pound.

Alden Jerry


Microwave ovens help in cooking food with remarkable speed. The convection facility in an oven provides a ‘airflow’ circulation that heats up the food in less time using much less electricity. Cooking in this appliance is a lot faster than conventional methods of cooking as it operates at much lower temperatures. With microwave cooking, nutrient values are preserved and the actual taste of the food remains intact. It also requires a minimum quantity of oil to cook any dish.

Food cooked in this appliance is as nutritious as food cooked in other ways, and studies prove that ovens retain more vitamins, minerals and nutrients than boiling. There are several kinds of microwave ovens in the market. Some renowned brands are Kenwood, Stoves, Panasonic and lots more. Select from the different brands and models and serve your family, friends & guests with tasty, healthy and delicious food.

The microwave oven can help in making food quicker. Today it has taken the important place of cooking appliances at home and is used for reheating, cooking and melting. You can find them in different colours like white, black and silver. Explore the appliance that will give you convenience, features and affordability. They are now more than a handy re-heating option and fulfil quite different roles within different households. Kenwood, Panasonic, Russell Hobbs have introduced excellent microwave ovens for consumers. Each one is capable of providing the cooking requirements of people and is equipped with advanced features to provide more cooking convenience and efficiency.

These available oven models are capable of doing your more basic chores like grilling, roasting and barbecue. They have functions such as Auto Roast, Auto Defrost, Ferment Function, as well as Child Lock to prevent accidental operation by youngsters. There are Grill models in the oven line also that can be used for your frequent grilled food favourites.

Roberto Sedycias


Microwave radiations are the basic tool applied by microwave ovens or microwaves to cook or heat the desired food stuff. The scientific formula used to achieve this process is simple.

The microwave radiations usually are emitted by magnetrons. The polarized molecules such as oil, water, fat and etc., within the respective food stuff are excited to produce heat. The uniform excitation leads to the simultaneous and complete heating of the food stuff. Heating food quickly and efficiently has been epitomized by microwaves. The art of food preparation has been revolutionized by microwave ovens since their inception into the market in the 1970s.

First introduced to the world by Percy Spencer, while in the midst of building magnetrons for radar sets, microwave ovens have since then taken the world by storm. The microwave oven cooked its first food as popcorn and later came the egg.

Raytheon, the company for which Spencer had been working on with the radar sets and had discovered the microwave phenomenon, filed a patent on 8th October, 1945. They came out with the first official microwave oven, the Radarrange. It was huge, consuming almost 3000 watts and weighing almost 340 kg. Later on commercial models were introduced that consumed about 1600 watts and sold for around $2000 to $3000. The first popular and home model was produced by Raytheon again. The countertop Radarrange in 1967 was priced at $495 and was the initiators of the popular microwave oven models in use today.

By 1975, sales volumes for microwave ovens went up to 1 million, but were less than Japan. Here cheaper building methods led to extensive market penetration for the home models of microwave ovens. The rapid decline in the price of the microprocessors with the arrival of the technological revolution in the 1980s led to microwave ovens being a regular fixture in all US households as well as in the rest of the world. Today as 90% of the US households own a microwave oven, the Chinese firm Galanz is the biggest player in the microwave oven market, accounting for up to 40% of the global microwave oven market.

The microwave actually consists of these constituents: high voltage transformer, the source path of energy to the magnetron; cavity magnetron; magnetron-control circuit along with a microcontroller; waveguide; cooking chamber for the food stuff to be placed in.

Microwaves cook food from the outside itself, contrary to popular belief that food is cooked `inside out` here. Microwaves are absorbed by the food stuff as from any other conventional heat sources. The penetrative power of microwaves is the only differentiating factor here. They have several power levels to choose from that allow the depth and extent of heating that the food stuff is assumed to be supposed to undergo. Convection ovens have nowadays gained popularity. These are a mix of standard microwave and a convection oven, allowing food to be cooked yet be crispy and brown as in convection ovens.

Microwave ovens are usually used for time efficiency and yet quality cooking in households as well as industrial applications. Even though microwave radiations are not considered injurious to health and are better than conventionally cooked food, there are still security issues with the conventional microwave oven. At times, liquids and improper heating or faults with the magnetron tube may cause bursts and resultant burns. Some also have issues with being exposed to microwave radiations.

Shruti Singh


Even few decades ago, there were only single mode of cooking food and that was through burning wood. But, now the time has changed and along with that the mode of cooking. With the advancement of technology people have experienced highly efficient and useful electronic devices for cooking foods, the microwave ovens are one of those. A microwave oven has bought a revolution in our kitchen. This revolutionary device utilises micro wave and electric energy to cook food items, instead of fire. There are variety of ranges in Microwave Ovens, each have different and useful features, but choosing among them is no an easy task. So, before picking up anyone of them, one has to have little knowledge of these Ovens.

Before buying any Latest Microwave Oven, the major thing that has to be kept in mind is your requirements. There are three basic models in these types of ovens. These are, solo ovens which is used for just heating up the food items, next is oven grill which is used to warming up the food as well for toasting and the another one is convection oven which is used for warming up, toasting and cake baking. So, it’s all up to and your need to choose the right oven for you.

There are several companies that offer Microwave Ovens that follow traditional regular buttons, while other machines are more advanced which use digital technology for more accuracy and user-friendly features. Several ovens come with features, like childlock that avoids endangering children. Also, every ovens has different power consumption to cook food. So, this is another point that has to kept in mind and choose the one according to your benefit.

Cleaning the oven is very important part, a cooking device has to be clean regularly in a proper way. For cleaning purpose, it is better to clean right after use. It is easy to clean with a bowl of warm water after heating the oven for one minute.

Cooking food in a microwave oven can be very healthy, as many research say that microwave cooked food are more nutritious than food cooked through the traditional ways. Moreover, this oven can be remarkably easy to mastering, if you once go through the manuals provided with the device. Some safety policies have to be followed while using it, including make sure the utensils that you are using for the device is microwave safe, plastic utensils must be avoided, do not add any extension cord with the original cord and so on. By following all these instructions, one can safely use the product and can avoid any danger.

Though there are several stores where you can find many branded microwave ovens, but if go for online shopping you can get various options. You can choose any microwave device with several offers. Therefore, you can avail the best one for you regardless of having little knowledge on products and the Internet.